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Soldiers, Saints, and Shamans: Indigenous Communities and the Revolutionary State in Mexico’s Gran Nayar, 1910–1940
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Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (3): 416–417.
Published: 01 July 2023
... to hide clay figures of soldiers that would come to life and attack enemies. Such compelling examples of Indigenous resistance to both the state and to one another fill the pages of Soldiers, Saints, and Shamans , Nathaniel Morris’s gripping account of how, from 1910 to 1940, the Náayari, Wixárika...
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A Black Soldier's Story: The Narrative of Ricardo Batrell and the Cuban War of Independence
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (2): 400–401.
Published: 01 April 2015
...Terry Rugeley A Black Soldier's Story: The Narrative of Ricardo Batrell and the Cuban War of Independence . By Batrell Ricardo ; edited and translated by Sanders Mark A. . ( Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2010 . lxix + 225 pp., introduction, appendix, acknowledgments...
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Philippine Indios in the Service of Empire: Indigenous Soldiers and Contingent Loyalty, 1600–1700
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (2): 381–413.
Published: 01 April 2016
..., this article extends the previously limited nature of our understanding of indigenous soldiers in the Spanish Pacific, focusing in particular on the problem of what motivated indigenous people to join the Spanish military. The existing historiography of reward structures among indigenous elites is here coupled...
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The Struggle for Mapuche Shamans' Masculinity: Colonial Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Southern Chile
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (3): 489–533.
Published: 01 July 2004
...Ana Mariella Bacigalupo Spanish and criollo soldiers in what is now Chile viewed colonial Mapuche and especially male shamans ( machi weye ) as perverse sodomites engaged in devil worship. I analyze the gender identities of male and female machi in the colonial period by considering ethnic, gender...
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Cannibalism and the Body Politic: Independent Indians in the Era of Brazilian Independence
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (4): 549–573.
Published: 01 October 2018
... with implementing plans to transform into loyal subjects these mobile hunters and foragers, who inhabited a forested expanse separating the colony’s primary inland mining district from the Atlantic coast. Actively engaging settlers, soldiers, and agents of the state, the Botocudo contested Portugal’s geopolitical...
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The Making of Regional Systems: The Tapajós/Madeira and Trombetas/Nhamundá Regions in the Lower Brazilian Amazon, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (4): 621–645.
Published: 01 October 2018
... and political organization. Following Hal Langfur, we can term this general making of spaces a re-territorialization. Critical social relations include those between Amerindian ethnic entities and their leaders, soldiers, and missionaries. This article focuses on a key spatial relation between Amerindian...
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Indigenous Diplomacy and Spanish Mediation in the Lower Colorado–Gila River Region, 1771–1783
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (2): 329–352.
Published: 01 April 2019
... engaged with Spanish mediation between Indigenous peoples. As this article demonstrates, missionaries and soldiers brokered Indigenous peace agreements to protect overland communication between Sonora and Alta California and stake out a role for the empire in the river region. In turn, Native peoples...
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“They Had a Chance to Talk to One Another...”: The Role of Incidence in Native American Code Talking
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Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (2): 269–284.
Published: 01 April 2009
... wars. This essay documents several instances in which the presence of Native American soldiers within the same or nearby units who spoke a common native language was discovered by accident, either by their commanding officers or by the members themselves, and their subsequent use in sending military...
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Austronesian Mortuary Ritual in History: Transformations of Secondary Burial ( Famadihana ) in Highland Madagascar
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (1-2): 123–155.
Published: 01 April 2001
... the 1820s practices of secondary burial re-emerged from long-distance repatriation of soldiers' remains and from ceremonies of tomb-to-tomb transfer as kin built new sepulchres of stone. Because they consumed time, energy, significant financial resources and tended to strengthen local networks of loyalty...
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“Through Death’s Wilderness”: Malaria, Seminole Environmental Knowledge, and the Florida Wars of Removal
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Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (1): 3–25.
Published: 01 January 2024
... environment to resist removal and the loss of territory. Taking Seminole movement, home construction, and language and placing it in dialogue with sources from soldiers and settlers involved in the wars, this article reveals a new facet of Indigenous resistance to colonial violence, rooted in relationships...
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“Search for and Destroy”: US Army Relations with Alaska's Tlingit Indians and the Kake War of 1869
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 January 2013
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homes of a Kéex’ Kwáan Tlingit Indian village located on the shoreline; a
village where men, women, and children had lived for thousands of years.
A few minutes later longboats with armed soldiers put ashore and estab-
lished a military perimeter around the village. After a brief reconnaissance...
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Kiowa at the Battle of the Washita, 27 November 1868
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (4): 519–545.
Published: 01 October 2021
... valid in content. 41 This image depicts a line of seventeen uniformed US Army soldiers with raised rifles, wearing light green coats, blue trousers, black boots, and winter caps, firing toward several Kiowa warriors with a camp behind them. Bullets in flight cover most of the drawing. One soldier...
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Moved by Terror: Frontier Violence as Cultural Exchange in Late-Colonial Brazil
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (2): 255–289.
Published: 01 April 2005
...;
but on what was arguably the more important level of local and regional
governance, this often appeared far from the case. More than in any other
major region, native raids on settlers, slaves, soldiers, and property in the
eastern reaches of the captaincy of Minas Gerais (see fig. 1) seemed diffi-
cult...
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“My Medicine Is Punishment”: A Case of Torture in Early California, 1775–1776
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (4): 679–708.
Published: 01 October 2010
... of the events to his superior, Junípero Serra, three
weeks after the event. In addition, the four soldiers stationed at the mission
later described the uprising to their captain.
In early November, Mission San Diego de Alcalá housed four sol-
diers, two missionaries, two blacksmiths...
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Western Toba Messianism and Resistance to Colonization, 1915-1918
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (2): 293–316.
Published: 01 April 2004
... that
the White’s bullets would not penetrate their followers, and a consider-
able number of warriors responded to the call to take the warpath. Five
hundred Guaycuruans attacked San Javier de Mocobis, but the Argentine
army defeated the believers. The soldier’s firearms proved to the indigenous
people...
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Sources of Rebellion: Indian Testimony and the Mission San Gabriel Uprising of 1785
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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (4): 643–669.
Published: 01 October 2003
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on Spanish colonization seem to have been lost to historians. For genera-
tions, therefore, historians of colonial California have relied almost exclu-
sively on the letters, narratives, and reports of the Franciscans, soldiers...
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Indigenous Allies and the Conquest of Maranhão
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Ethnohistory (2025) 72 (1): 65–91.
Published: 01 January 2025
... hundred soldiers to the beaches and stationed Indigenous allies among the trees. Seeing these forces, and knowing of the disaster the day before, the canoes simply returned home (55) At this point the Tupinambá, awed by the Portuguese victory, began to rethink their allegiance (Hemming 1978 : 211...
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Meeting with Resistance: Early Spanish Encounters in the Americas, 1492–1524
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (4): 671–695.
Published: 01 October 2016
..., where men who soldier and pursue war in different ways meet and compete [La guerra es la que causa y causará, dó quiera que la haya, grandes novedades é notables eventos, en especial, como he dicho, donde se juntan é concurren diversas é diferentes maneras é costumbres de hombres á militar é seguir la...
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Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (2): 398–400.
Published: 01 April 2015
... Cadavers,
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DOI 10.1215/00141801-2854395
A Black Soldier’s Story: The Narrative of Ricardo Batrell and the Cuban
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Missed Opportunities and the Problem of Mohawk Chief John Norton's Cherokee Ancestry
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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (2): 261–291.
Published: 01 April 2012
... and natives
at the time of the Seven Years’ War. In these assaults, by British soldiers,
colonial forces, and their aboriginal allies, a number of women and children
were captured—including, John Jr. tells us, his father, who would become
John Norton Sr. It is possible that John Jr. confused Keowee...
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